Google Gets Slack with Software Updates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @07:35AM from the showing-off-your-toys dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While Google's open source project titled 'Slack' was released over a year ago, last week's Australian Unix Users Group Conference marks the first time that Google has ever discussed the system in public. Corporate systems administrator Michael Still helped to illuminate a little bit about how Google uses Slack and how their network of computers fits together. From the article: '"Slack is a source deployment system and it's the way we install applications on servers," Still said, adding Slack is based around a centralized configuration repository which is then deployed onto selected machines in a "pull" method. Each of the "worker" machines asks for its new configuration regularly or when a manual command is run.'"

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So its part of the Active Directory for Unix by 0racle · 2006-10-17 08:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This sounds almost exactly like the Active Directory's ability to publish and/or assign software to Domain members.

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Re:open source ruined business for everybody by SirTalon42 · 2006-10-17 08:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Awww! Poor 7 digiter is upset by OSS? Enjoy your Windows (you should probably not use the internet though, most versions of Windows uses FreeBSD's network stack)!